[FRIAM] Cult-cha

2011-04-19 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Dear all, Last fall, some of you encouraged me to try and organize a lit’ry thing (12 best books, or something of the sort) for our “seminar” series. I couldn’t pull it off ,but, for the summer, St Johns is offering seminars that might fill the bill. Please See,

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2011-04-19 Thread Pamela McCorduck
Commentary on content and instructors, fwiw: Though I don't know all the books, or instructors, I've taken courses from both Eva Brann and Patricia Greer, and both of them are superb-- Brann is legendary. I re-read the Alexandria Quartet a few years ago (it came out in the late fifties) and

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2011-04-19 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Pamela, On the other hand, who but a bunch of 70 year olds has the experience to speculate on what (is?)(might have been?!) the good life. And then, when I had written the above, I got to wondering: I had always assumed that a large a part of the wisdom of participating in such a

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2011-04-19 Thread qef
Greetings, all -- At the risk of weighing in too heavily on all of this (SJC graduate), allow me to second Pamela's endorsement of Eva Brann. She's worth the price of admission, even if you were only discussing the phone book. Pamela's point about the Seminar and life's experiences is well